The Starkville Board of Aldermen spent nearly five hours Saturday touring the city, talking to residents about flooding and drainage problems, and formulating plans to address issues in each of Starkville's seven wards.

A short-handed Starkville Planning and Zoning Commission chose to wait until it was at full strength before deciding on one developer's request to build condominiums in the former University Inn Tuesday night, while flatly denying another request.

Working in the steel business, Gulf States Manufacturers President Danny Coggins knows it's tough to make grown men cry. One Starkville Christian School student, however, can do it without even trying.

STARKVILLE -- If a Columbus man sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife had not pleaded guilty, the court would have handed down "the fastest guilty verdict in Lowndes County," according to attorney Donna Smith.

A convicted drug dealer who was deemed to be a habitual offender was sentenced Tuesday in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court to serve 17 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections on two drug-related charges.

Jan Morgan was cycling Monday along Bluff Lake Road, near the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, when she suddenly found herself standing on the side of the road, dazed, injured and unable to identify her surroundings.